Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry

Current work

The Welsh Government’s Dementia Action Plan pledges to take action on improving hospital care for people living with dementia. The Cross Party Group on dementia has recently launched an inquiry and are keen to hear views.

How to submit evidence

You can share your experiences with the CPG by completing the online survey.

Alternatively, you can submit written evidence by emailing or post.

When you make a submission of written evidence to the CPG, please ensure that:

Your submission is no more than 1,000 words

You state clearly who the submission is from, i.e. whether from yourself in a personal capacity or sent on behalf of an organisation

Welsh Government has set a vision for Wales to be a dementia-friendly nation that recognises the rights of people with dementia to feel valued and to live as independently as possible in their communities.

The action plan aims to progress commitments
relating to dementia in Taking Wales Forward and Prosperity for All setting out the range of stakeholders who can support this agenda and the actions required for change.

The Health, Sport & Social Care Committee looked to assess the extent and impact of loneliness and isolation experienced by people in Wales, particularly older people, and how it can be addressed, by considering:

the evidence for the scale and causes of the problems of isolation and loneliness, including factors such as housing, transport, community facilities, health and wellbeing services;

the impact of loneliness and isolation on older people in terms of physical and mental health and wellbeing, including whether they disproportionately affect certain groups such as those with dementia;

the impact of loneliness and isolation on the use of public services, particularly health and social care;

ways of addressing problems of loneliness and isolation in older people, including interventions to specifically address the problems and other projects with wider aims. Evidence for what works and the outcomes for older people in
terms of health and wellbeing;

the extent to which initiatives to combat loneliness and isolation experienced by other groups may also help to address these issues for older people;

current policy solutions in Wales and their cost-effectiveness, including the Ageing Well in Wales programme. The approach
by the Welsh Government in terms of maintaining community infrastructure and support, and using the legislative framework created in the Fourth Assembly, e.g. the Social Services and Wellbeing (Wales) Act 2014 and the Wellbeing
of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015.